We Care

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Recorded as a joke by a trio of Swedish art punks, "Hobo Humpin' Slobo Babe" was a surprise modern rock smash in late 1993, thanks in large part to singer Cia Berg flashing her braces in a Lolita-inspired video that had to be seen to be believed. Now, Whale is back with its first full album,We Care. Instead of the Red Hot Chili Peppers gonzo-funk of its hit single, the group delivers swirling ambience and laidback grooves that fit well with the sounds coming from Bristol, England. (Bristol trip-hopper Tricky guests on three tracks.) The rampant libido and the wacky humor are still intact, but alas, Berg's braces are gone. --Jim DeRogatis --This text refers to the Audio CD edition.

P.D.A. (We Just Don't Care)
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Get PDA ..... ASAP!

P.D.A. (We Just Don't Care)
John Legend
Manufacturer: Bmg/RCA
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Binding: Audio CD

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ASIN: B000N69P2K
Release Date: 2007-03-05

Tracks:

Pda (We Just Don't Care)
Heaven (Johnny Douglas Remix)
Heaven (Clipse Mix)
Pda (We Just Don't Care) (Video)

Album Description

UK CD single pulled from the Grammy Award-winning R&B singer/songwriter's Once Again album. Features 'PDA (We Just Don't Care)' coupled with 'Show Me'. RCA.

Album Details

2007 Single Lifted from the Soulful Singing Sensation's Sophomore Album "Once Again" and Backed with Two Remixes of the Awesome Song "Heaven", Where Legend Lives Up to his Name and also Includes the Enhanced Video of "Pda".

Customer Reviews:

Get PDA ..... ASAP!.......2007-05-05

I love this song! I've never really listened to John Legend before this but his soulful voice really captures you! It's such a soothing song that so naughty at the same time. lol. The first time I heard this song they were playing it on the Eric & Kathy show on Chicago's WTMX 101.9 The Mix for their Two Strangers and a Wedding Social Experiment. They played it during the wedding reception and he is just as good live as he is on this CD....if not better! That's a hard quality to find in artists now-a-days. Long story short (too late) BUY P.D.A.!!!!!

The Essential Songs of Andrew Lloyd Webber

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Okay, but kind of disappointing
Not quite what I expected...
Some great performances, some not so great...
Disappointed
Musical Talent at Its Best

The Essential Songs of Andrew Lloyd Webber

Manufacturer: Metro Music
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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ASIN: B00005Y47E
Release Date: 2002-02-22

Tracks:

Any Dream Will Do
Close Every Door
Heaven On Their Minds
Everything's Alright
Gethsemane
I Don't Know How To Love Him
Jesus Christ Superstar
Could We Start Again Please?
Don't Cry For Me Argentina
Another Suitcase In Another Hall
Buenos Aires
Rainbow High
High Flying Adored
Memory
Jellicle Cats
Mister Mistofeles
Unexpected Song
Last Man In My Life
Rolling Stock
U-N-C-O-U-P-L-E-D

Tracks:

Only You
Starlight Express
There's Me
Pie Jesu
Angel Of Music
Masquerade
Wishing Somehow You Were Here Again
All I Ask Of You
The Phantom Of The Opera
Music Of The Night
Love Changes Everything
The First Man You Remember
Seeing Is Believing
As If We Never Said Goodbye
Sunset Boulevard
With One Look
Too Much In Love To Care
Half A Moment
Whistle Down The Wind
Our Kind Of Love

Album Description

Full title, 'Essential Songs Of Andrew Lloyd Webber'. UK budget-price compilation. 40 superlative performances featuring songs from every one of Andrew Lloyd Webber's hit musicals. Guest artists include John Barrymore, Issy Van Randwyck, Dave Willetts, Maria Friedman, Kim Criswell, Graham Bickley and the National Symphony Orchestra. Housed in a slipcase. 2002.

Customer Reviews:

Okay, but kind of disappointing.......2006-04-17

This isn't a bad recording, but the tracks are not the actual performances off of any cast recording of any of Andrew Lloyd Webber's musicals. The reditions of the songs on the disc are of varying quality. Some are pretty good. Some are borderline awful.
It is a good collection for inexpensively getting a lot of Andrew Lloyd Webber's most popular songs in one place and having them there to be able to listen to get the idea of what a certain song sounds like and is about. It isn't the collection of definitive recordings for certain roles. In fact in a couple examples, I wonder if the performer fully understood the context of the song he or she was singing &/or what it was about. Overall, the album is good, for the most part, if not excellent.

However, the liner notes for "The Essential Songs of Andrew Lloyd Webber" is another matter. I don't mean to be unkind, but the author of the comments on the different tracks (one Rexton S. Bunnett) is blatantly WRONG in multiple instances. I don't mean just in nit-picky details, but in major plot details/context of songs, like the fact that Bunnett identifies "Wishing You Were Somehow Here Again" as being sung by "our heroine" (who he does not even identify by name as Christine Daae) as she thinks about her lover, not as being sung about Christine's dead father. He also says that the Phantom has found his perfect love and "Angel of Music" in Christine... because HE is the Angel of Music who Christine believes has been sent to her by her dead father, and because although the Phantom is obsessed with Christine, that relationship is far from "loving" (even if Christine shows him compassion. I feel like these (and a couple other mistakes) are major plot points to get wrong. A good amount of the commentary reads as if Bunnett might have written it at the last minute, fudging his way through entries on musicals of which he had little knowledge; like what an essay I might write on a book I never read for my college class but had quickly looked up on Cliff's Notes would sound like. In terms of sheer editing, there are spelling mistakes, run-on sentences and spacing errors ("Any DreamWill Do")in the liner notes. Where was the copy editor?
And the most frightening fact of all, under Bunnett's credentials, it says "Harper Collins has just published his revision and updating of the Collins Book of the Musical."
I am being very critical, but I think that for a widely-released CD it is reasonable to expect the liner notes to be at a professional level, as they were most likely supposed to be.

Not quite what I expected..........2005-04-23

I was looking for a CD of the original performances and this CD doesn't have them. I suppose it was my fault for not looking closer, but the songs just weren't the same. Personally, I was not impressed. If you don't care that they aren't the originals then it is nice to listen to.

Some great performances, some not so great..........2005-04-18

This CD is actually pretty good, considering you get 40 songs for less than $16. Let's evaluate the pros and cons.

Pros:

Two classic songs that are performed excellently are Phantom of the Opera and I Don't Know How to Love Him.

Of course you want to compare Phantom to the classic Michael Crawford/ Sarah Brightman version. Well, guess what? This version is BETTER. The woman has a deeper voice than Brightman, and her singing style is just awesome. The ending of this version (you know, the "Sing, my angel of music, sing for me!") is different, but in a good way... I think.)

And of course, the standard for I Don't Know How to Love Him is Yvonne's version. This version is different, but it grew on me quickly. This version has a country feel to it, almost. Somehow it works and sounds great.

There are a lot of great performances in this collection. My favorites include: Heaven on Their Minds, Everything's Alright, Could We Start Again Please, Another Suitcase in Another Hall, Buenos Aires, Rainbow High, Only You, Starlight Express, Angel of Music, Masquerade, All I Ask of You, Half a Moment, and Whistle Down the Wind. I think they're all great versions of their more famous counterparts.

Cons:

First of all, there are some technical problems that are kind of disappointing. A few of the songs have a very echoey sound. Any Dream Will Do, Another Suitcase in Another Hall, Wishing You Were Somehow Here Again, and There's Me are the songs that come to mind that are the worst in this regard. It isn't really bad, just enough to be slightly annoying, more so when the volume is turned way up on your CD player.

A few songs are worthy of skipping over when listening to this collection. In my opinion, Superstar, Sunset Boulevard, and Gethesmane are the biggest disappointments.

Superstar just doesn't cut it for me. The singer really overdoes it, making it overstylized... really makes you yearn for Murray Head. I can't stand listening to it. Just my opinion.

Sunset Boulevard is one of my very favorite musicals, so I was really hoping that the singer would do justice to its title song. Unfortunately I don't think he did. You can't help but compare it to Alan Campbell's fantastic version. This guy has a very choppy way of singing, when I'm used to it being sung so smoothly. Maybe it would grow on me, but I don't think I'll give it a chance to. However, that last note is much stronger than Alan Campbell's. It doesn't make up for the rest of the song, though.

Finally, Gethsemane. The inevitable fact is that NO ONE can sing this song like Michael Ball. This guy tries, he really does. But he doesn't have the right voice or the right style. So please listen to Michael Ball's performance of Gethsemane if you want to know how breathtaking of a song it can be. It's on the Royal Albert Hall DVD, and I'm sure he's got it on one of his CDs.

Anyway, overall, this is a good CD if you like quantity over quality. Don't buy it for the classics, you'll probably end up disappointed with many of them. Buy it for the lesser known songs. You probably won't like every song, especially if you're a big ALW fan, but for the price, it's worth it.

If you want classic versions of classic ALW songs, you might prefer something like "The Very Best of Andrew Lloyd Webber: The Broadway Collection".

Disappointed.......2005-03-11

The singer(s)does not do justice for the lyrics. It was grating to the ears. Save your money for the originals.

Musical Talent at Its Best.......2003-01-03

What a pleasure to hear a collection of Andrew Lloyd Webber's beautiful music from such wonderful voices accompanied by an outstanding symphony. This sensational CD is a treasure to own.

Average customer rating:

sweet, sleazy n slick
Buy for the "Hobo" song
Not as good as the single promises, but great anyway
Still holds up
One of the finest albums in history

We Care
Whale
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Binding: Audio CD

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Tracks:

Kickin'
That's Where It's At
Pay For Me
Eurodog
I'll Do Ya
Electricity
Hobo Humpin' Slobo Babe
Tryzasnice
Happy In You
I Miss Me
Young Dumb N' Full Of Cum
I'm Cold
Born To Raise Hell

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Recorded as a joke by a trio of Swedish art punks, "Hobo Humpin' Slobo Babe" was a surprise modern rock smash in late 1993, thanks in large part to singer Cia Berg flashing her braces in a Lolita-inspired video that had to be seen to be believed. Now, Whale is back with its first full album,We Care. Instead of the Red Hot Chili Peppers gonzo-funk of its hit single, the group delivers swirling ambience and laidback grooves that fit well with the sounds coming from Bristol, England. (Bristol trip-hopper Tricky guests on three tracks.) The rampant libido and the wacky humor are still intact, but alas, Berg's braces are gone. --Jim DeRogatis

Customer Reviews:

sweet, sleazy n slick.......2007-01-26

Killer grooves and some tricked out noise on this cd. I love it. Real weird stuff with some really sleazy sexual overtones, which was cool because it was released during the grunge era and bands were heading that way. This is not grunge but is a nasty cd with some wild guitar, sultry singing and heavy beats. Crank this bad boy up.

Buy for the "Hobo" song.......2006-08-19

The hobo song is okay. The rest of the cd is unlistenable!

Not as good as the single promises, but great anyway.......2006-05-25

We have a tape with the "Hobo Humpin' Slobo Babe" video, and I really liked the song. However, I never heard of them again. Now, only a few days ago, we were at the Salvation Army, and my dad saw the CD and we got it for the single. The rest of the album is not anything like their single, but I love that. "Kickin'" is a really great song, as well as "Born to Raise Hell" and "Happy In You." I'd say, get this album if you like slow songs, as well as fast, loud songs. Key tracks: Kickin', Hobo Humpin' Slobo Babe, Happy In You, I Miss Me, and Born to Raise Hell.

Still holds up.......2006-01-18

I am writing a review of an album that is over a decade old yet it still sounds just as fresh and inovative as the day it came out. Whale was a pioneering band. A lot of the sounds on We Care were relatively experimental back then, yet today they are staples of the alternative rock scene. Searing guitar with heavy fuzzbox laid over hip-hop style drumming (often on a real kit, not a drum machine) and lead vocalist Cia's sultry flow. The album has a very heavy trip-hop feel overall, especially when Tricky throws his two cents into the mix. There are some heavy metal moments to many of the tracks.

One of the best things about this album is Cia. Her vocals are astounding. She can switch from girlish innocence to sultry smokyness at the drop of a hat. The lyrics are at times obscene, yet her delivery of those lyrics make it sound like she is reading nursery rhymes.

I cannot think of one weak moment on the whole CD. Anyone who appreciates well done music with an edge should give this CD a listen.

One of the finest albums in history.......2004-09-29

Whale is one of the best bands ever. They've put together one of those albums that as you listen to it you totally rock out to the song that's on and feel like it's your favorite song on the album. Then the next song comes on and that one rules too and you love it just as much and on and on for the whole album. Definately a cornerstone of a good record collection.

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English is an asset and a drawback
You Will Love Opera After Hearing Carmen In English
A wholly credible "Carmen" -- finally!
I love Carmen!

Carmen (Sung in English)
Bizet , Bardon , Gavin , Plazas , Magee , and Parry
Manufacturer: Chandos
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ASIN: B00007JGRN
Release Date: 2003-03-11

Tracks:

Prelude
In The Plaza
Just Look At That Delicious Morsel
Here Come Our New Soldier Boys
Jose! There Was A Girl Here Looking For You Just Now
Off With You Old Soldier Boys
Corporal! Sir!
We Have Heard The Bell Summon Us To Meet Here
Ah, Just Look!
But Why Hasn't She Come, Our Carmencita?
Love's A Bird Wild As Any Rebel
Carmen! We Will Follow You High And Low!
The Cheek Of It!
Give Me News Of My Mother!
Your Dear Mother And I Were Leaving Church This Morning
I See My Mother's Face!
Wait A Moment - I'm Going To Read The Letter
Come And Help
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Careful - It's Lieutenant!
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From Far Away Mysterious Sounds
Bravo, Bravo! More! Keep Dancing!
Hurrah! Hurrah! The Torero!
Who's That? It's Escamillo, The Bullfighter From Granada
Hurrah! Hurrah! The Torero!
You're Most Kind
We'll Come With You, Senor Torero
Toreador, Be Ready!
At Last! We Got Rid Of Them As Quickly As We Could
There's A Little Job That We're Starting!
Being In Love Is Not A Reason

Tracks:

To Bid You Welcome To Our Bar
La La La La La La La La...
Back To Camp!... Go At Once!
That Flow'r You Threw To Me I Treasured
No, It's Not Love At All!
Hello! Carmen!
Lieutenant Fair, It's True
The Sky Above The Open Road
Entr'acte
Keep Going, Dear Old Friend, Kep Going!
Right! Let's Stop For A While
Shuffle! Cut Them!
In Vain You Would Avoid The Bitter Things They're Saying
You're Back!
As For That Man, It Should Be Easy!
Is This The Place?
I Say That There's Nothing To Fear
It's Him! I'm Sure It's Him Over There!
Escamillo Is My Name, And I Come From Granada
She Had A Lover Here
Hola! Hola! Jose!
You Should Take Care, Carmen
Alas! Jose, Your Mother Is Ill
Entr'acte
A Few Cuartos! A Few Cuartos!
Here They Come! Here They Come!
If You Love Me, Carmen
It's You! It's Me!
Viva! Viva! What A Corrida!

Customer Reviews:

English is an asset and a drawback.......2004-07-20

The best thing about this recording of Carmen is the libretto. Conductor David Parry penned this facile and dramatic English translation. He avoids the pitfalls of literal translation to achieve an idiomatic flow that matches the rhythm of the original lyrics. I use this as a reference libretto for any of the French Carmens.

Unfortunately, the performance suffers from being sung in English. The singers declaim their parts with such proper British diction that Carmen comes across as a school marm. The spoken dialog is delivered beat for deliberate beat and is dripping with reverb. It makes the plaza, tavern and mountain pass all sound like a sewer pipe.

This is a good first Carmen for someone trying to understand the work. The libretto itself is a good investment for further listening. For an enjoyable performance with an emphasis on character and action, I recommend Regina Resnik on the London Double Decker set.

You Will Love Opera After Hearing Carmen In English.......2004-02-09

What a perfect introduction to opera. This newly released recording will surely get you hooked into opera. Carmen, a French opera by Georges Bizet, is the most recognizable and most popular in the opera world. It's famous melodies- the overture, the Habanera, The Toreador Song have all been featured in everything from cellular phone ring tones to Superbowl Commercial (last year's Superbowl with The "Opera In English" label has been making Italian operas into English for a number of years now. Also on the market are Verdi's La Traviata in English (with soprano Valerie Masterson as Violetta) Handel's Julius Caesar with Janet Baker and even Wagner's epic Ring Of The Nibeling sung in English. This is a terrific recording and I highly recommend it if you want to get into opera. Listen to this version first and then try the real, original French version Bizet had written. Patricia Bardon is sensational, sexy and dramatic as Carmen.

The real strength of this version is the dynamic drama. With the advantage of being sung in English, we get better insight on characters' emotions and motives, and we understand the drama a lot better. Carmen is all about great drama. Bizet drew the plot from the French writer Prosper Merimee's dark short story. Carmen is the ultimate femme fatale- a devil-may-care, sexy Gypsy living in Spain, seduces the conservatively raised soldier Don Jose, stealing him away from his fiancee, the passive Micaela, living a life of underground smuggling and rowdy taverns. "Habanera" and "The Gypsy Song and Dance" are very expressive of Carmen's extraordinarily liberal lifestyle. Don Jose, however, has fallen deeply in love- as he shows us in his song/aria "The Flower Song". But Carmen soon becomes tired of his constancy. Don Jose wants a committed, monogamous relationship with Carmen. But Carmen will not submit to love, since she is first and foremost a carnal creature. Eventually, she falls for the handsome Toreador Escamillo. Don Jose, consumed by jealousy, stabs Carmen at a bullfight after Carmen declares her love for Escamillo and rejects Don Jose's love. Don Jose's crazed, obscessive personality shines through in the English version as well. This tragedy has been done in English before so don't think this is the first time. Back in the 50's, there was a film, starring black actors "Carmen Jones" which was treated the same way as this opera- more like an English Broadway musical and with the dubbed singing voice of Marilyn Horne as Carmen. All in all, this recording is excellent.

A wholly credible "Carmen" -- finally!.......2003-09-17

This recording really sells "Carmen" as a drama. Although I have two other recordings of this opera and have seen it performed several times, it never quite worked for me dramatically. But thanks to the fine performances, conducting, and translation here, I've become a "Carmen" convert. Producing a good English-language performance of a foreign opera, especially a warhorse like "Carmen," is much more difficult than it might appear. You need performers who not only can sing the parts (of course) but also can sing *English* and make it halfway intelligible and make it sound like English and make it dramatically convincing to English-speakers. The singers on this recording do an excellent job all around. Don't be put off if you don't recognize their names -- they are up to the task musically and (especially) in their acting. Admittedly, as with *all* English-language recordings, some passages are very hard to understand without reading along, but most of the time the words are clear and effective. I would recommend this recording to any opera beginner or opera lover, even those who normally turn up their noses at performances in translation.

I love Carmen!.......2003-08-15

I do. I can think of no other opera with more melodic inventiveness, and few others with so sure a dramatic pulse. Carmen is popular and it thrills me to say that it is also a very good opera - not always true of popular things.

And what of this recording? Carmen sits well in English, so it is good to hear in translation, although some of the detais in the text jar. Escamillo refers to Jose as "my dear", which sounds rather peculiar, and the guide's line to Micaela: "it's not exactly inviting, is it?" sounds distinctly Middle England rather than Rural Spain. Some of the performers, not least Carmen herself, make the words work, although there are long tracts, especially with the chorus, where the language is distinctly indistinct.

The soloists are, by and large, strong. Patricia Bardon's deep, Handel-friendly voice adapts well to Carmen and she colours the music with phenomenal detail, sounding sexy and provocative from the start with an edge of pride and anger that emerges as the show goes on. She is out of her depth above the stave, though, and some extra top notes in the second act don't show her off to her best advantage. I have previously said that Julian Gavin is poorly served by recordings, though here he sounds much more even and gives a thrilling and musical performance (but his wooden spoken lines let him down). Mary Plazas is a lovely Micaela, rich-voiced and sincere (and word-perfect), but Garry Magee sounds miscast as Escamillo, lacking the ballast at the bottom of the voice to do justice to this tricky role.

The supporting cast is good (Mary Hegarty seems to do nothing but Frasquita these days!) but the really treasurable thing is the conducting. Stepping out of Italian Ottocento, David Parry turns his hand to this French Comedie with an appropriate lightness of touch. His pacing and handling of the set pieces is exemplary and the enrtractes go with a real swing.

Tracks:

On The Town: New York, New York
On The Town: Lonely Town
On The Town: Carried Away
PETER PAN: Build My House
PETER PAN: Plank Song
Trouble In Tahiti: I Was Standing In A Garden
Trouble In Tahiti: What A Movie!
Wonderful Town: Conga
Wonderful Town: Ohio
Wonderful Town: Wrong Note Rag
Candide: Best Of All Possible Worlds
Candide: Oh, Happy We
Candide: Glitter And Be Gay
Candide: Make Our Garden Grow
West Side Story: America
West Side Story: Maria
West Side Story: Tonight Quintet
West Side Story: Somewhere
Mass: Hymn And Psalm: A Simple Song
FINALE: ON THE TOWN: Some Other Time
ENCORE: 1600 HUNDRED PENNSYLVANIA AVENUE: Take Care Of This House

Customer Reviews:

A great "first step" to the magic of "The Great White Way".......2006-11-26

With the Thanksgiving passing of songwriter Betty Comden, I recalled that I had, in my album collection, this album, not just featuring her songs but Comden singing on "Carried Away" and "Some Other Time" from the Tony-award-winning "New York." Two other songs from the play are featured, culled from a 1960 recording.

This compilation has some of the best of Broadway, not just the songs but the performers as well. Familiar names like Boris Karloff, the legendary Rosalind Russell, Nancy Walker, Chita Rivera, and Carol Lawrence are showcased in various selections from the likes of "Peter Pan," "Trouble in Tahiti," "Wonderful Town," "Candide," "1600 Pennsylvania Avenue," and, in this writer's opinion, the best musical in the history of the stage, "West Side Story."

The liner notes provide brief but insightful descriptions of the various plays, including an introduction from Comden and her longtime collaborator Adolph Green, also heard on the album.

The music is definitely Bernstein with his uniquely American style, coupled with Old World influences.

Average customer rating:

A good shot at a 'Best Of' Album.

20 Best of Andrew Lloyd Webber

Manufacturer: Madacy Records
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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ASIN: B00027JZ8E
Release Date: 2004-05-25

Tracks:

Phantom of the Opera: Phantom of the Opera
Phantom of the Opera: Music of the Night
Phantom of the Opera: Wishing You Were Somehow Here Again
Phantom of the Opera: All I Ask of You
Jesus Christ Superstar: Everything's Alright
Jesus Christ Superstar: John 19: 41 [Instrumental]
Jesus Christ Superstar: I Don't Know How to Love Him
Jesus Christ Superstar: The Last Supper
Evita: Another Suitcase in Another Hall
Evita: Buenos Aires
Evita: High Flying Adored
Evita: Don't Cry for Me Argentina
Cats: Memory
Cats: Magical Mr. Mistofelles
Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat: Pharoah's Story
Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat: Any Dream Will Do
Sunset Boulevard: Too Much in Love to Care
Sunset Boulevard: As If We Never Said Goodbye
Song and Dance: Take That Look Off Your Face
Song and Dance: Tell Me on a Sunday

Customer Reviews:

A good shot at a 'Best Of' Album........2006-01-16

I was pleasently surprised at this CD. The singers were all pretty good, and the music was great. My only complaint is with the 'Phantom of the Opera' tracks. "Christine" does fine on the title song and 'All I Ask of You', but on 'Wishing Your Were Somehow Here Again', she falls a little short of a good preformance.

The thing that impresses me the most on this CD are the 'Jesus Christ Superstar' tracks. They all sounded superb, and I prefer them to my original broadway cast soundtrack.

I was dissappointed that they only chose two songs from 'Cats', one of Lloyd Webber's crowning acheivements as a composer. THe show was remarkably successful and is the second longest running show in Broadway history, only topped by 'Phantom'. Also, I felt the songs they chose were a bit...odd. 'Memory', of course, is a given. But why throw 'Mister Mistoffelees' into the mix? Why not the Prolouge,'Jellicle Songs for Jellicle Cats'?

All in all, I was very impressed with this CD. I give it 4 out of 5 stars, and I recommend it for any fan of Lloyd Webber's music.

Chicago: Music from the Hit Stage Play and Movie

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A great budget release!
A mistery, but not that bad.

Chicago: Music from the Hit Stage Play and Movie

Manufacturer: Delta
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Release Date: 2003-04-15

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When You're Good to Mama
Cell Block Tango
All I Care About
We Both Reached for the Gun
Roxie
I Can't Do It Alone
Mister Cellophane
Razzle Dazzle

Customer Reviews:

A great budget release!.......2006-02-24

I actually thought this was a very good budget release: having already bought the DVD, soundtrack from the movie, and original cast recording, I still wanted more: this CD is an entertaining re-record of the popular hits...sure, the cast is unknown, but I enjoyed this CD, especially at the super-cheap price: worth checking out if you are a big Chicago fan!

A mistery, but not that bad........2003-12-27

Maybe is the midi-like keyboard instead of a band, the performances that sometimes are good or even stage caliber on the vocal side but most of the times they lack of the "character spirit", or how they ended adding small parts of the Broadway Revival album (like the Hunyak speech on the Cell Block Tango) but after hearing this album you are totally puzzled for the lack of information about the performers, and how good this album could be if they'd fixed the metioned problems.

Only knowing that it was recorded in London in December of 2001 from a 'Live' performance (that actually could be a "one-take session on a studio" performance), when in some moments the female leads sounded a bit like the West End stars, Ute Lemper as Velma and Ruthie Henshall as Roxie, and in others it seems that just one lady is doing all the parts in the Cell Block Tango, and just one man did We Both Reached For The Gun (including the Mary Sunshine and Roxie parts), the MIA liner notes and not being listed on the label's website give to much room for speculation, you can even think is a sort of a demo recording, if you want to listen to something different and you're a die-hard Chicago fan, give it a chance.

Dido and Aeneas / de Los Angeles, Glossop, Harper, ECO, Barbirolli
Average customer rating:
Dido and Aeneas / de Los Angeles, Glossop, Harper, ECO, Barbirolli
Henry Purcell , Sir John Barbirolli , John McCarthy , Victoria de Los Angeles , Peter Glossop , English Chamber Orchestra , Heather Harper , Patricia Johnson , Raymond Leppard , Ambrosian Singers , Sibyl Michelow , and Elizabeth Robson
Manufacturer: EMI Records [All429]
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

Purcell, Henry | ( P ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music
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ASIN: B00002585D
Release Date: 2000-10-24

Tracks:

Ov - ECO/Sir John Barbirolli
Act One, Scene One: Shake The Cloud From Off Your Brow - Heather Harper
Act One, Scene One: Banish Sorrow, Banish Care - Ambrosian Singers/John McCarthy
Act One, Scene One: Ah! Belinda, I Am Prest With Torment - Victoria De Los Angeles
Act One, Scene One: Grief Increases By Concealing - Heather Harper/Victoria De Los Angeles
Act One, Scene One: When Monarchs Unite - Ambrosian Singers/John McCarthy
Act One, Scene One: Whence Could So Much Virute Spring? - Victoria De Los Angeles
Act One, Scene One: Fear No Danger To Ensure - Heather Harper/Elizabeth Robson/Ambrosian Singers/John McCarthy
Act One, Scene One: See, Your Royal Guest Appears - Heather Harper/Peter Glossop/Victoria De Los Angeles
Act One, Scene One: Cupid Only Throws The Dart - Ambrosian Singers/John McCarthy
Act One, Scene One: If Not For Mine, For Empire's Sake - Peter Glossop
Act One, Scene One: Pursue Thy Conquest, Love - Heather Harper
Act One, Scene One: To The Hills And The Vales - Ambrosian Singers/John McCarthy
Act One, Scene One: The Triumphing Dance - ECO/Sir John Barbirolli
Act One, Scene Two: Wayward Sisters - Patricia Johnson/Clare Walmesley
Act One, Scene Two: Harms's Our Delight And Mischief All Our Skill - Ambrosian Singers/John McCarthy
Act One, Scene Two: The Queen Of Carthage, Whom We Hate - Patricia Johnson/Ambrosian Singers/John McCarthy
Act One, Scene Two: Ruin'd Ere The Set Of Sun? - Clare Walmesley/Sybil Michelow/Patricia Johnson/Ambrosian Singers/John McCarthy
Act One, Scene Two: But, Ere We This Perform - Clare Walmesley/Sybil Michelow
Act One, Scene Two: In Our Deep Vaulted Cell - Ambrosian Singers/John McCarthy
Act One, Scene Two: Echo Dance Of Furies - ECO/Sir John Barbirolli
Act Two: Ritornelle - ECO/Sir John Barbirolli
Act Two: Thanks To These Lonesome Vales - Heather Harper/Ambrosian Singers/John McCarthy
Act Two: Oft She Visits This Lov'd Mountain - Elizabeth Robson
Act Two: Behold, Upon My Bending Spear - Peter Glossop/Victoria De Los Angeles
Act Two: Haste, Haste To Town - Heather Harper/Ambrosian Singers/John McCarthy
Act Two: Stay, Prince! And Hear Great Jove's Command - Sybil Michelow/Peter Glossop
Act Three: Come Away, Fellow Sailors - Robert Tear/Ambrosian Singers/John McCarthy
Act Three: Sailors' Dance - ECO/Sir John Barbirolli
Act Three: See The Flags And Streamers Curling - Patricia Johnson/Clare Walmesley/Sybil Michelow
Act Three: Our Next Motion Must Be To Storm Her Lover - Patricia Johnson
Act Three: Destruction's Our Delight - Ambrosian Singers/John McCarthy
Act Three: Witches' Dance - ECO/Sir John Barbirolli
Act Three: Your Counsel All Is Urg'd In Vain - Victoria De Los Angeles/Heather Harper/Peter Glossop
Act Three: Great Minds Against Themselves Conspire - Ambrosian Singers/John McCarthy
Act Three: Thy Hand, Belinda - Victoria De Los Angeles
Act Three: When I Am Laid In Earth - Victoria De Los Angeles
Act Three: With Drooping Wings - Ambrosian Singers/John McCarthy